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02-22-2008, 02:46 PM
| | | Half-Blood Prince in Best Children's reads of all time list
Harry Potter has featured on a list of the best children's reads of all time, with Half-Blood Prince coming in at #6. The sixth novel was the only one of the series to make it onto the list. A total of 4,000 people participated in the poll conducted by the charity Booktrust, who run the government-backed Bookstart initiative that gives free packs of books to children. Quote:
Viv Bird, director of Booktrust, said: "It's wonderful to see the enduring popularity of these books which are loved by generation after generation."
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02-22-2008, 02:51 PM
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| | Romanian Longhorn
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Margaret Jacqueline Atkinson Morris Fifth Year | Potter’s Princess A+ FangGirl
That's aweeesome!  Go HP! ^^
__________________ I gotta go back to the muggle world,
they're gonna try and tell me this wasn't, that none of this happened,
but you know what? It was real. It did happen.
We spent time here. We made friends here. That's a part of us.
Cause Hogwarts is bigger than any of us, of any of it's founders,
and it's going to be around long after we're gone.
Maybe we'll see our kids come here one day.
That's the thing about Hogwarts.
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02-22-2008, 02:59 PM
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| Formerly: Nibs   Mackled Malaclaw
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Dominique De Aura ♥ Sixth Year | ☆ Princess of RP ☆|| Lioness || XOXO | Laugh || Love || Live ☆
Well Duh!! Hehe Well Done HP xxx
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02-22-2008, 03:05 PM
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| | Veela
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Jillian McGuffin Sixth Year | Gryffindor Goddess Oh wow, I haven't even read, let alone heard of, the ones in numbers 2 and 3!xD
anyway, well done HP! |
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02-22-2008, 03:33 PM
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Phineas Fischer Fourth Year | *snortles* MAMA!Shroom Some of my favorite books of all time are on there! Roald Dahl's books are so great The Secret Garden! *huggles my tattered copy*
I wonder why HBP was the only one to end up on that list. It's not even the best one, in my opinion. Maybe because it's the one where Dumbledore dies. Pretty pivotal stuff.
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02-22-2008, 03:57 PM
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Adalia Longbottom. Third |
Well done.
My favourite book of the series!
But I can't believe that griffin_girl hasn't heard of The Famous Five! O_O
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02-22-2008, 04:57 PM
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|  SS Featured AuthorTürk Bilgini Bugbear
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Sarani Glass Graduated x12
| ♥ Mrs. Itachi Uchiha™ & MAJNOO! : Bleach & Kyo & Natsume ♥ [ Maxh!Jesh ] I'm more excited for The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, if truth be told. I LOVE it. That, and LoTR, have got to be my favourite fantasies. EVER.
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02-22-2008, 05:00 PM
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| Randomly Random Nogtail
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02-22-2008, 05:14 PM
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| | Gnome
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Astrid Klein First Year |
Of course it is! Actually I'm surprised ALL of the Harry Potter books weren't there!
Well deserved! Harry Potter shall never die! (not from our hearts ever! [ well ok, atleast mine! ;P]) Please click my Egg!
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02-22-2008, 05:28 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Stockholm, Sweden.
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Lionella Hastings |
It is great! And I love the 6th book
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02-22-2008, 05:56 PM
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That;s awesome!
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02-22-2008, 08:52 PM
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Thats really cool! I can't believe that the other books didn't make it ahead of this one especially considering it is one of the darker books.
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02-22-2008, 10:28 PM
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Teagan Skye Corliss Fifth Year | Chris Cookie Siriusly In Love Ohh, nice. I wouldn't have thought HBP would be the only one making the list, but better than nothing |
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02-23-2008, 05:18 AM
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Elizabeth Snape Graduated |
thats awsome
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02-23-2008, 09:10 AM
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| Eager Russian Learner Imp
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Evangeline McHarris Sixth Year |
That's awesome! I am proud of it! ;D
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02-23-2008, 11:14 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: In a pineapple. <3
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Emerson Gray. Fourth Year | G1GGL3R! *giggles* My GarBear Yay!
HBP was my favourite book of the series too. |
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02-23-2008, 04:47 PM
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| That's brilliant!! |
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02-23-2008, 07:32 PM
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I'm more surprised that most of the rest, especially PS, are not also on the list.
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02-23-2008, 10:48 PM
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Rebecca AnnaMarie Latrowski Fifth Year | I like to emphasize~Mecca~ScoobieDoo~M O L L Y~Dori~MummyAlice~Beckers the ALIEN
That is so Brilliant
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02-24-2008, 12:16 AM
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Susan Bones Seventh Year |
well of course
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02-24-2008, 04:33 AM
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Ottery St. Catchpole Gryffindor Third Year | Still I'm going to read Enid Blyton now ... but Dahl is overrated ... Paris & Kellybear r luv :Read Otty 's fics:Gone With the Wind:I♥Rupert So this is what they call propaganda? *smirks at EmmaRiddle* The title of the article is: Harry Potter straggles in a 'disappinting' sixth in children's book poll 
Seriously, anyone making it onto one of these polls should feel just honored ... maybe the person who wrote the original article is a jerk? *pokes the Daily Mail* seriously, Captain Underpants? *pokes* Miffy? WTF???!!!!111111
This poll looks seriously twisted I swear I never take these things too seriously, popularity is so fleeting, and it always depends on who you poll, but I bet you HBP won cuz of the H/G! *fires the cannons* Harry smooching Ginny is as good as it gets in literature ...
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02-24-2008, 05:39 AM
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Chloe Elizabeth McFadden Fifth Year |
HP rocks!
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02-24-2008, 06:52 AM
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Great! I love book 6 so much but what about DH?? I thought it would be there too.
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02-24-2008, 11:26 AM
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Marcella Riddle Graduated | Kaplinski Rival Sorting Hat Machine That's not propaganda, it's framing. The agenda is already set but the article, the way it's constructed, tells you how to think about the poll, rather than just presenting the facts, as I've tried to do. The Daily Mail are jerks though. As are their readers. But at the end of the day most stories need a focus, and this was it.
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02-24-2008, 05:58 PM
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Hogwarts RPG Name: Jake Chatich First Year | FanFic Enthusiast Go HP!!!
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